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BrownPepper posted:What's the best horror film by a director who is mostly known for working outside of the genre. The Exorcist is the easy answer, but I'm sure there are a lot of interesting picks I'm too dumb to think of. Alien I think would count. I could argue The Haunting if only because Robert Wise isn't really known for any one genre.
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Jul 3, 2023 21:20
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Incidentally if you've got the Criterion Channel all the Poe/Corman films there are set to leave at the end of the month, it's worth catching them! I've only seen The Raven so far but it's kind of delightful.
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Sep 11, 2023 20:09
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I’ve just noticed and am curious, why is Universal now putting out an Exorcist movie? I know it’s David Gordon Green but you figure WBD would want to hold on to its franchises. (Even if none of the sequels or prequels have been especially huge.)
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Sep 30, 2023 03:26
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Hollismason posted:Its the 50th anniversary of the original Exorcist movie Yes which was a Warner Bros. movie. I’m not confused that there’s another one I’m confused how they changed studios.
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Sep 30, 2023 03:40
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Hollismason posted:They paid 400 million dollars for it. Okay, that sounds right. Missed that news.
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Sep 30, 2023 03:44
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Xiahou Dun posted:The Howling 6 is Wolfman vs Demonic David Bowie who runs a circus. It’s on Tubi. My main takeaway from now having seen most of the old school F13 flicks is they’re mostly fine. Rarely actually scary (though the first has an all time great jumpscare) but the woodsy atmosphere is neat and there’s a certain sense of fun.
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Oct 1, 2023 02:29
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Doltos posted:The worst discovery to make as a fan of the genre is framing. The second I figured out that if someone is on one side of a shot and there's an empty spot to the other side something def is gonna happen on that side things no longer became scary. Same whenever someone walks away from the group of people and there's blocking on one side of them. 10 times out of 10 they get dragged off to that side of the shot. I feel like sometimes filmmakers play with that, though- like there'll be a shot like that and you're EXPECTING the killer to leap out there, but no, it cuts to another shot, and THEN the killer leaps out of somewhere else. It's all in the misdirection.
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Nov 3, 2023 01:03
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Armond White was a contrarian for a long time but ever since taking the NR post he's just followed the conservative script so now it's just that things are Woke or whatever. He's clearly not trying as hard as he used to.
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Nov 4, 2023 09:30
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Counterpoint: Part 3 has the best theme music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOU0CgX40JU
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Nov 6, 2023 07:10
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I enjoyed Hell House LLC a lot but I was always skeptical of any sequels. It feels very self contained, doesn’t need much more.
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Nov 12, 2023 03:05
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To a certain extent appropriation is what that story is about, going back to the original short story. The protagonist is specifically being punished for coming into this environment and trying to explain away a powerful force.
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Nov 24, 2023 23:48
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Punkin Spunkin posted:How is that incidentally? Been meaning to see it. I like it a lot but I saw it first as a kid so it's stuck with me. Not as nightmare-like as the original but still has a certain child's fantasy quality, the aliens are neat, and of course it's a Tobe Hooper film so it looks gorgeous. Also has a really cool opening theme and "names flying through space" credits sequence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5-hjignYoo Maxwell Lord fucked around with this message at 10:51 on Nov 30, 2023 |
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Nov 30, 2023 10:47
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They can be.
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Dec 10, 2023 03:00
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I enjoyed Mother! quite a bit. I don't have any particular desire to see it again but I admire what it accomplished.
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Dec 17, 2023 09:58
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Shrecknet posted:Still looking for submissions for each of the states below: I know Eyes of Fire was shot in Missouri, not sure it's set there
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Jan 7, 2024 05:38
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A couple days late but this is worth sharing: https://twitter.com/vmenendezb/status/1757763077443829902
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Feb 17, 2024 01:58
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fr0id posted:Hey everyone! I would like create a kickas playlist of the best horror themes of all times. We’ve got og Halloween. We’ve got Helen’s theme from candyman. We’ve got tubular bells. We’ve got everything goblin. We’ve got freebied from devils rejects. Please throw any and everything horror that reminds you of it. I’ll add it all to make a kickass playlist. Mater Tenebrarum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4CxUq6hjaQ Magic and Ecstasy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iIZb0gOmFQ
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Feb 19, 2024 23:25
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Sexy French Hallucination
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Feb 24, 2024 22:35
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:That's the funniest part. There's nothing gained here other than pocket change. I get the feeling that with some of these people it really is just wanting to fool around with it for its own sake, not because it actually solves any problems.
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Mar 22, 2024 01:46
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What's great about it (apart from the owl mask) is instead of having people picked off one by one until they realize what's happening, it's just "Oh poo poo we're in here with a psycho killer" and the rest of the movie is just everybody running around trying not to die.
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Mar 22, 2024 06:53
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I definitely recommend checking out Stewart in Crimes of the Future, she's got a wonderful twitchy energy.
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Mar 25, 2024 01:25
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Erin M. Fiasco posted:As someone who went to college for journalism and took reporting classes, edited together video packages, etc. The Blair Witch Project is incredible to me because it absolutely nails the reality of the concept. You fully believe it's found footage because it does so many great little things an actual student documentary would do. I love the intensity and ramping panic and frustration, too. It's still awesome. Yeah I think it works really well on the psychological level, you can feel them getting on each other's nerves and kinda losing it, while there's still a sense of something out there that's pushing on them.
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Apr 7, 2024 08:49
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Creepypastas came up earlier and I know of two good ones: the cave one mentioned earlier and Dionaea House, which is here: https://web.archive.org/web/20041030020221/http://www.dionaea-house.com/default.htm Good sense of tension, keeps coy about the details, doesn't overplay its hand. (Which is what 99% of these things do.)
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Apr 7, 2024 08:53
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My entire response to the scientists-doing-dumb-things-in-Prometheus discourse is, the Demon Core. Like sure reality doesn’t always work in fiction but well, folks do dumb stuff. That in and of itself isn’t a plot hole or a major problem.
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Apr 10, 2024 05:15
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The Dark Crystal show was good and did some unexpected things, the one problem is the one all heavily serialized streaming shows have where episodes feel a little overlong because they don’t quite know how to pace out the story.
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Apr 17, 2024 05:26
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Yeah like if nothing else you see a lot of what the Jim Henson Company can do nowadays and it’s quite impressive.
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Apr 17, 2024 05:46
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Spielberg absolutely stepped in for parts of it, there's a debate as to just how much though. I believe it was Zelda Rubinstein who claimed Hooper was drugged up the entire time, there's been some pushback against that, but at the very least Spielberg helped out with the FX heavy stuff because he was more used to it. At the same time it's not completely lacking in Hooper's feel. I think it reads best as a collaboration.
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May 2, 2024 09:50
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